Area: Jarrow

Hours: 4 Hours per week

Area: Jarrow

Rates of pay: Age-related national minimum wage, up to £12.90 per hour

Holidays: 5.6 weeks pro rata per annum

 

We’re looking for a kind, patient, and enthusiastic Personal Assistant to support an 11-year-old boy who has a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). He experiences challenges with learning, communication, social interaction, and emotional regulation.

He has sensory sensitivities and processing difficulties and sometimes mouths or eats non-edible items (Pica), which can affect his health. His speech and language are significantly delayed, and he communicates mostly through gestures and body language.

Despite these challenges, he’s a bright and active young boy who enjoys a wide range of activities! He loves exploring both indoors and outdoors, playing with trains, using the iPad, messy play, soft play, and building with LEGO. He also enjoys singing nursery rhymes, number games, PE, trampolining, biking, and swimming.

He has severe learning difficulties and is working well below age-related expectations. He lives at home with his mum, dad, and older sibling. Some personal care is required, as he is not fully toilet trained. He may request to wear a pad and can become upset or emotional if it’s removed, sometimes leading to head banging when frustrated.

He is very sensitive to noise and can become anxious or overwhelmed in busy environments, which may lead to meltdowns.

 

This vacancy will close as soon as a suitable candidate is appointed.

At the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the U.K.

 

Hours: 4 hours per week to be used after school, school holidays and Saturdays

Area: Jarrow, South Tyneside

Rates of pay: Age related national minimum wage, up to £12.90 per hour from 1 April 2025

Holidays: 5.6 weeks pro rata per annum

 

We are looking for a female Personal Assistant for a 16-year-old girl. She attends Karate, loves going to the beach and swimming – although not very well yet, and has just started Rangers. She also loves spending time on her tablet and on her phone playing games. However, she gets easily bored and we are looking for someone with a lot of patience, who would be willing to go swimming, go the pictures and ride on the Metro. She loves buses, Metros and travelling generally.

She has five types of epilepsy, and although she is incredibly loving and caring there can be times that she will emotionally exhausted and frustrated extremely when in large crowds.

There will be some personal care involved as she is in pull ups and is also using pads in these at certain times of the month. She does not like fire alarms, or the alarm in disabled toilets, this is resulting from scaring herself as a child.  She also loves dogs, and although there is not a dog resident at the property a friend’s dog does visit, so if you are dog friendly, all the better.

Look past the medical issues and you will see a young lady with a wicked sense of humour, who can talk the ears off you and be amazingly active with after school clubs, and activities galore.

 

There is a genuine occupational requirement for the holder of this post to be male/female in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and Equality Act 2010 schedule 9 paragraphs 1 – 4.

 

This vacancy will close as soon as a suitable candidate is appointed.

At the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the U.K.

 

 

Hours: 8 hours per week to be used after school and Sundays

Area: Jarrow, South Tyneside

Rates of Pay: Age related national minimum wage to £12.90 per hour. this is negotiable at interview and higher rate payable

Holidays: 5.6 weeks pro rota per annum

 

We are urgently seeking a younger male to be a personal assistant to a 15-year-old boy. This boy has a diagnosis of Autism, learning disability and Anxiety Disorder. Part of his anxiety manifests itself through not being comfortable around unfamiliar people. You will be required after school and some weekends (which can be discussed at interview).

He loves football and will swing between loving Newcastle United and Sunderland depending how he is feeling, he is also very active and adores swimming likes the beach, he attends Waves on a Saturday.  He likes to go out for food, but equally as happy being active. He is also what more social interaction with his peers.

He has been known to be verbally outspoken and say inappropriate things at time. He also my display physical behaviours that may challenge at times when in a heightened state.  He has limited danger awareness while in the community and may at times when heighten leave the environment he is in. Therefore, he is very vulnerable when out in the community unsupervised.

We urgently need the right people to help this young man to have a fulfilling and varied time doing the things he likes.

This post is based on 2:1 with the right people coming forward.  A full enhanced DBS is essential for this role.

We can only accept and forward applications/applicants who live in the UK and have driving licence but may consider non drivers.

 

There is a genuine occupational requirement for the holder of this post to be male/female in accordance with the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and Equality Act 2010 schedule 9 paragraphs 1 – 4.

 

This vacancy will close as soon as a suitable candidate is appointed.

At the time of starting their employment, the successful candidate must have permission to work in the U.K.